# ῥίς
## Ancient Greek

Picture dictionary :
ῥίς
κρανίον
ἐγκέφαλος
ὀφθαλμός
χεῖλος
ῥίς
στόμα
γένειον
γνάθος
οὖς
κρόταφος
τράχηλος :

### Alternative forms

* ῥῑ́ν (rhī́n) — Later poetic

### Etymology

Probably a Pre-Greek borrowing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /r̥ǐːs/ → /ris/ → /ris/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /r̥ǐːs/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ris/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ris/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ris/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ris/

### Noun

ῥῑ́ς • (rhī́s) f (genitive ῥῑνός); third declension
* nose, snout
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.291
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.445
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.154
** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 21
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 329d
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 68
*** 73
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Herodas, Collected Works 6.37
** (in the plural) nostrils
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.503
**** 14.467
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.456
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 267
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 918
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 344
*** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 79e
* (probably) brow of a hill, projecting spur of land
** 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Curatione Acutorum Morborum 1.2
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Ass 12
** 50 CE – 150 CE, Soranus, Fasc. 11

#### Related terms

Not to be confused with similar words meaning skin, leather; hide, shield from ἡ ῥῑνός (rhīnós) or similar words meaning file, rasp from ἡ ῥίνη (rhínē)
* ᾰ̓νᾰ́ρρῑνον n (ănắrrhīnon, “plant nose-smart, watercress, κάρδαμον; sternutative”)
* ἀντῐ́ρρῑνον n (antĭ́rrhīnon, “palnt calf's snout, plant Antirrhinum Orontium”)
* ἄρρῑνον n (árrhīnon)
* ἐπίρρινος (epírrhinos, “with a long nose”)
* ἔρρινον (érrhinon, “sternutatory medicine causing sneezing”)
* εὐθύρινος (euthúrinos, “straight-nosed”)
* εὐθύρρῑν (euthúrrhīn, “straight-nosed”)
* εὔθυρρις (eúthurrhis, “straight-nosed”)
* εὔρῑνος (eúrīnos, “with a good nose”)
* εὔρῑς m or f (eúrīs, “with a good nose”)
* κολοβόρινος (kolobórinos, “with broken nose”)
* μεγαλόρινος (megalórinos, “with large nose”)
* ῥῑναυλέω (rhīnauléō, “snort, blow from nouse from anger”)
* ῥινάω (rhináō, “lead by the nose; file”)
* ῥῑνεγκᾰτᾰπηξῐγένειος (rhīnenkătăpēxĭgéneios, “with a nose near the chin”)
* ῥῑνεγχυσία f (rhīnenkhusía, “injection at the nose”)
* ῥῑνεγχῠτέω (rhīnenkhŭtéō, “inject at the nose”)
* ῥῑνόω (rhīnóō, “inject at the nose”)
* ῥῑνεγχῠ́της m (rhīnenkhŭ́tēs, “instrument for passing such iniections”)
* ῥῑνέγχῠτον n (rhīnénkhŭton, “injection for the nose”)
* ῥῑνέγχῠτος (rhīnénkhŭtos, “injected at the nose”)
* ῥῑνηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ f (rhīnēlăsĭ́ā, “tracking by the nose”)
* ῥῑνηλᾰτέω (rhīnēlătéō, “track by scent”)
* ῥῑνηλᾰ́της m (rhīnēlắtēs, “who tracks by scent”)
* ῥῑνήλᾰτος (rhīnḗlătos, “tracked by the scent”)
* ῥῑνίον n (rhīníon, “diminutive of file (ῥίνη), or nose (ῥίς)”)
* ῥινοβόλος (rhinobólos, “striking the nose, emitted through the nose”)
* ῥινόκερως m (rhinókerōs, “rhinoceros”)
* ῥινοκολοῦρος (rhinokoloûros, “with mutilated nose”)
* ῥινοκολούστης m (rhinokoloústēs, “nose-clipper, of Heracles”)
* ῥινοκοπέω (rhinokopéō, “cut off the nose”)
* ῥινολαβίς (rhinolabís, “tongs to hold the nose”)
* ῥινόσιμος (rhinósimos, “snub-nosed”)
* ῥῑνοσπᾰ́θιον n (rhīnospắthion, “a surgical instrument”)
* ῥῑνοτορίνιον n (rhīnotorínion, “a surgical instrument”)
* ῥῑνουλκέω (rhīnoulkéō, “inhale”)
* τανύρρινος (tanúrrhinos, “long-nosed”)
* τετράρρῑνος (tetrárrhīnos, “with four nozzles”)
* ὑπόρρῑνος (hupórrhīnos, “under the nose”)
* ὑπόρρινα n pl (hupórrhina, “moustaches”) (or perhaps of ὑπόρρις m (hupórrhis))

#### Descendants

* Greek: ρίνα (rína)
* → English: rhino- (learned)
* → French: rhino- (learned)
** → Persian: رینوـ (rino-)
** → Romanian: rino-
** → Turkish: rino-
* → German: rhino- (learned)
* → Greek: ρινο- (rino-) (learned)
* → Italian: rino- (learned)
* → Spanish: rino- (learned)

### See also

* ῥῑνη f (rhīnē, “rasp”) or ῥίν (rhín, “sense: rasp”)
* ῥῑνόν n (rhīnón, “hide; shield”) το ῥῑνόν, του ῥῑνοῦ
* ῥῑνός f (rhīnós, “skin of a man; hide of a beast”) ἡ ῥῑνός, τῆς ῥῑνοῦ (occasionally masculine)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ῥίς, ῥῑνός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1288

### Further reading

* “ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ῥίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ῥίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ῥίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ῥίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. nose idem, page 562.nostril idem, page 562.